Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

big-leofa

  • noun [ masculine ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
big-leofa, bí-leofa, an; m. [big, bí for, líf life, leofen living, nourishment] .
provision by which life is maintained,
Food, victuals, nourishment; cibus, victus, alimentum
Show examples

  • Ðú nimst witodlíce of eallum mettum ... ðæt híg beón ǽgðer ge ðé ge him to bigleofan

    tolles igitur ex omnibus escis ... et erunt tam tibi quam illis in cibum,

      Gen. 6, 21.

  • Hwæt begytst ðú of ðínum cræfte? Bigleofan, and scrúd, and feoh

    quid adquiris de tua arte? Victum, et vestitum, et pecuniam,

      Coll. Monast. Th. 23, 3-6.

  • Bigleofa

    victus,

      Ælfc. Gr. 28, 5; Som. 32, 6.

  • Bíleofa

    alimentum,

      C. R. Ben. 49.
that by which food is procured,
Money, wages; stips, stipendium
Show examples

  • Scipe vel bigleofa

    stipendium,

      Ælfc. Gl. 12; Som. 57, 92; Wrt. Voc. 20, 33.
Similar entries
v. an-leofa, and-leofen.
Linked entries
v.  big-leofan bí-leofa bí-leofen -leofa.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “big-leofa.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/4297.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • big-leofa, n.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.